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Ted Williams has a tunnel and soon Bill Russell will get a bridge

By adamg on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 2:05pm

Mayor Wu announced today the city is renaming the North Washington Street bridge after Celtics great and civil-rights activist Bill Russell.

City and state officials, Russell's widow, Jeannine, and Celtics owners and players will gather Monday morning to formally rename the still under-construction new bridge, near the old Garden where Russell played, as the the William Felton "Bill" Russell Bridge.

Russell died in 2022.

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Comments

By Jiggles on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 2:13pm.

Get off the pipe, Gavin.

By adamg on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 2:14pm.

I need to stop trying to do more than one thing at a time ...

By Jon Skarin on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 2:19pm.

But maybe they should focus on finishing the bridge since it's over 2 years behind schedule.

By adamg on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 3:09pm.

I'm not sure how a renaming announcement involving the mayor, current players, etc., will slow things down (for what it's worth, the announcement will be on the eighth floor of a building in the Garden complex, so no construction trucks will be slowed in their haste to put down more asphalt or whatever it is they're doing now).

By Ron Newman on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 2:24pm.

I heartily approve.

By MisterMagooForYou on Fri, 10/18/2024 - 3:00pm.

Magoo shall henceforth self identify as good old Tom Bombadil. Magoo.